Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 21 July 2019 A week of hull patching. Con and Robert and later Robert and I did the patching on the outside of the hull. It involves routing out the damaged section leaving part of the timber strip to be replaced. Robert then makes up a piece of [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 15 July 2019 What bliss! The sound of three heat guns and two sanders. Tangalooma has fully exposed her bottom to all and sundry. Stripping and sanding is now complete on the outside of the boat after a super effort during the week. There is a little bit [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project Progress - 6 July 2019 Good progress made this week on a number of fronts. We had a visit from a representative of Altex paints who gave advice on finishes. They also provided a significant discount on the sealer and varnish we will use when we start recoating. Thanks to [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project - 29 June 2019 Work continues with teams working on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Robert Tearne started detail sanding around the stringers and we are about halfway through sanding the inside of the boat. Much of the remaining work is partially stripped and just needs the detail work completed. Coral [...]
Tangalooma Restoration Project - 22 June 2019 We floating the boat around to Pattons a week ago. and hauled it up into the workshop to begin the restoration. Interesting to see the stern with a barge underneath and a crew of people hauling the bowsprit over the wharf and dragging it forward into [...]
Historical 18-footers Tangalooma (1930) and Australia IV (1943) on Sydney Harbour
Sydney historical 18-footer BRITANNIA in a race which ended in a terminal fill up in 35 knots. Out of 8 boats in the fleet on 30 March 2019 five capsized, 1 broke their mast, one withdrew, only one finished.